Snowflake Challenge - Day #6

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I'm late to the party but I'm here!

I haven't used this DW since probably around this time last year, but I had such a great time participating in the Snowflake Challenge and I would really love to get more involved in my fandoms moving forward! After taking a bit of a break from the fannish world for the past few years, I'd really like to go full-force in 2020. I'll chat more about my relationship with fandom in another post, but here are some of the things I'd love to see!

Challenge #6

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you.

Since I haven't spent too much dedicated time in any of my fandoms, I'm not sure what exists and what doesn't at this point. It's a little difficult since many of my favorites are older (early to mid-2000s), so some of the content posted during that time isn't easily found. Firefly, for example, has a LOT of fanfiction posted to small fansites and dusty LiveJournal pages. It's a little far removed to me being as though I grew up in a time where all fanfiction could easily be found on FF.net, filters and all.

That being said...

1. Fanfiction recommendations!
Since a lot of what I like is buried away to find, I would love recommendations to obscure stories!

• In particular, I'm looking for Lost, but it can be hard to navigate the Lost fandom since I'm only on season 3 and I hear everyone dies in the end, or something.  Anything featuring Jack and Sawyer, or Jack/Sawyer would be a gem given how much these two fight. I love Boone and Shannon - not necessarily together - but any exploration of their messy relationship would be great.
• Firefly, of course. Mal being bossy, Simon being adorable, Jayne being... Jayne. Guh, give me all of it.
• The Dragon Prince has gone off the goddamn rails and I haven't had time to read any stories following the recent events. Anything aside from Callum/Rayla would be marvelous.

2. Fandom Friends!

• Perhaps I spent too much time on Tumblr and Twitter where ship shaming and callout posts are simply a part of the culture, but I grew up with the mentality of content > fandom. I'd search a tag, read through some stories, and leave without ever putting in my two cents because the Tumblr fandom world is NIGHTMARISH and it always felt that very few people were interested in friendship as opposed to drama and policing others.
• That said, I'd love some true friends within the fandom world without having to worry about politics and the 'cancellation culture' that's grown to be so common. I was lucky to have friends who didn't buy into it early on, but now I find myself walking on eggshells around my fandom friends lest I say the wrong thing about their series baby and ruin a friendship.

And... that's it! Friends and fanfiction will be enough to make my 2020 dazzle!